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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 19, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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                                           Category 606:  NON-TEXTURED FILAMENT YARN
                                                      Data in Kg..

(P)  These data are limited preliminary import data based on import figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
It will be supplanted by official imports from the Census Bureau as those data become available.  The release of these data 
is to allow preliminary analysis of the impact of total imports into the United States and imports from China into the 
United States to facilitate the administration of the textile safeguard in China's WTO Accession Agreement.

Because this report contains data for HTS Chapters 50-63 only, the following categories may be incomplete or not 
appear at all:  201, 229, 239, 359, 362, 369, 439, 459, 469, 621, 622, 659, 666, 669, 670, 859, 870, 871 and 899.


                        ----------- Official Data -------- |  --------------- Preliminary Data (unofficial) --------------------------------------------| 
                                                    Monthly Data                          Two Weeks-ending Data  (2009)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 Country                 10/2008   11/2008    9/2009       |  10/2009   11/2009        8/22      9/05      9/19     10/03     10/17     10/31     11/14
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                   4086542   4459343   2886888       |   2620496         .     1195835   1210775   1384617   1077478   1317201   1219407   1375790

 Korea, South            1625059   2352312   1284212       |   1273499         .      559679    498156    619779    473894    655530    617969    767774

 China                   1048650    948628    454843       |    518137         .      324508    187503    277793    160516    352513    165624    229203

 India                     96730    112433    124329       |    147745         .       63113      8845     43704    140774     20780    106565     56539

 Germany                  120721    190894    133617       |    120622         .       69952     68280     66320     39516     95162     25460     64168

 Slovakia                  34257     76296     59842       |     85446         .           .     19934     59842         .     19986     65460     66668

 Latvia                   118162    112721     83769       |     85353         .       76096     28259     55408     28361     67321     18032     18618

 Egypt                     46092     24473     23542       |     72138         .           .     35621         .     47810         .     47870     23678

 Belarus                   71735         0     71325       |     56418         .           .     55152     54223     18712         .     37706     18900

 Turkey                    79083     65471    163006       |     55449         .       13112    109094     40403     67555     27503     27946     13765

 Indonesia                194481     89681    121852       |     53253         .       42535     68009     95317     35697     20903     15673      6659

 Italy                     47825     46530      3816       |     37140         .        1459       287       671      3074      7127     30013      2114

 Japan                    151106     69774     48469       |     29184         .        3973     34700     24037     20584     24498      3931     21132

 France                    20601       511     18306       |     18184         .           .     17901       316     18235        33     17906         .

 Poland                        0         0         0       |     13674         .       13566         .         .         .     13674         .         .

 Israel                      310       146         0       |     11907         .        2102        22         .         .      2609      9298      3459

 _ASEAN                   194749     94457    156362       |     55196         .       45539     85979    126286     37091     22846     15673      9533

 _CBI                        800      1061     24082       |      9335         .           .       560         .      2149      4513      2673       850

 _CAFTA                      800      1061     24082       |      9335         .           .       560         .      2149      4513      2673       850

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .